Business

• U.S., China set to meet on trade in London, Trump says

  1 week ago Business Washington Times - Business 30

  President Trump says his top trade negotiators will meet with their Chinese counterparts on Monday in London to discuss the next steps in settling...

• Met singers' union gets 5% increase partly funded by $5M appropriation from New York state

  1 week ago Business Washington Times - Business 25

  The Metropolitan Opera and the union for its soloists and chorus announced a one-year agreement Friday on a contract.

• A British TV art expert who sold works to a suspected Hezbollah financier is sentenced to prison

  1 week ago Business Washington Times - Business 35

  An art expert who appeared on the BBC's Bargain Hunt show was sentenced Friday to two and a half years in prison for failing to report his sale of...

• Government moves to drop Sheetz race case after Trump halts use of key civil rights tool

  1 week ago Business Washington Times - Business 26

  Federal authorities moved Friday to drop a racial discrimination lawsuit against the Sheetz convenience store chain, part of a broader effort by...

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• Planet-warming emissions dropped when companies had to report them. EPA wants to end that

  1 week ago Business Washington Times - Business 149

  On the ceiling of Abbie Brockman's middle school English classroom in Perry County, the fluorescent lights are covered with images of a bright blue...

• Billion-dollar battery plant pauses construction amid electric vehicle and tariff uncertainty

  1 week ago Business Washington Times - Business 48

  A Japanese company has halted construction on a $1.6 billion factory in South Carolina to help make batteries for electric BMWs, citing "policy and...

• Walmart's army of bakery decorators take the cake when it comes to hourly store pay

  1 week ago Business Washington Times - Business 30

  Inside a Walmart store in New Jersey, a worker puts the finishing touches on a cake with an edible ink Sponge Bob on top. A colleague creates a...

• Lambda Legal, a nonprofit supporting LGBTQ+ rights, exceeded fundraising goal by $105M

  1 week ago Business Washington Times - Business 39

  The nonprofit legal aid group Lambda Legal, which advocates for LGBTQ+ rights, has raised $285 million at a time when attacks on the rights of gay,...

• How Trump's pick for surgeon general uses her big online following to make money

  1 week ago Business Washington Times - Business 32

  President Donald Trump's pick to be the next U.S. surgeon general has repeatedly said the nation's medical, health and food systems are corrupted...

• Hiring in the U.S. slows, though employers still added a solid 139,000 jobs in May

  1 week ago Business Washington Times - Business 17

  U.S. employers slowed hiring last month, but still added a solid 139,000 jobs amid uncertainty over President Donald Trump's trade wars.

• Here’s why SpaceX faces a bright future as government contractor despite Musk-Trump divorce

  1 week ago Business NY Post - Business 25

  SpaceX is deeply entrenched in some of the federal government’s most technologically sensitive and lucrative contracts – giving Musk and Trump...

• Trump’s immigration, trade policies could cost tourism industry $12B: report

  1 week ago Business NY Post - Business 36

  His mass deportation efforts, costly trade war, anti-LGBTQ legislation and, most recently, a travel ban on 19 countries have hammered foreign...